The NBC chain reported that in an interview with one of its correspondents, the night of March 29, Trump said: If they do not reach an agreement, there will be bombingsand threatened to punish Iran with what he called “secondary rates.”
Trump’s language marks a hardening of his comments days ago, when he said that if Tehran refused negotiate a new agreement nuclear, They were going to happen bad, bad things.
It is not clear if Trump threatened Iran with bombardments by only US planes or in a Coordinated operation with Israel.
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Analysts said that Iran could be just weeks after being able to make a nuclear pump. The Iranian government denies that its Atomic program Have military ends.
Trumpthat He took the United States in 2018 from an international agreement On Iran’s nuclear development program, he insisted, since his return to the White Housein dialogue with Tehran to control your activities in this area.
Iran’s president, Masud Peeshkian, declared that his country Does not try to avoid negotiationsin a video broadcast by a state medium.
Iran has always been open to indirect negotiationssaid Iranian President and said that the Iranian Supreme Guide, Ayatolá Ali Jamenei, stressed that indirect negotiations can be developed.
Trump recently announced that he had sent a letter to Iran and has said that he prefers an agreement, but has also threatened Tehran in case of failure.
On March 27, the head of the Iranian diplomacy, Abbas Araghchi, said that Tehran had responded to the letter of the US President, although without revealing the content.
